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Bacula: an Enterprise Class Open
Source Backup Tool

Hamant Shah

Abstract

This presentation discusses Bacula, the open source backup software.
It will cover installing, configuring and using Bacula. It will show
how to fully make use of it's capabilities and about how to implement
backup systems using 2TB of disk as backup media.

The following are some of the features of bacula:
* Distributed backup
* Backup to disk or tape
* Migrate from disk to tape
* Restore system as of time and date
* Bare metal recovery
* Internal scheduler for automatic and simultaneous backups based on priorities
* Command line, GUI and Wed interface for administration
* Support for ANSI/IBM labels
* Supports bar code readers
* Authorization and encryption

Bio

Hemant has worked with Distributed Computing, and Client/Server
technology since 1989 when he joined a large government research
laboratory, where he was part of the team that developed a distributed
job scheduling system for batch processing on Unix systems.

In 1992 he joined a consulting firm where he helped a larger mortgage
corporation migrate from a centralized mainframe based system to a
distributed client/server RDBMS system.

Hemant has designed and successfully implemented many Client/Server
projects. He has worked with many networking protocols such as TCP/IP,
DECNET, SNA. He is also a co-author of X Windows System User's Guide,
published by Artech House. He has also developed and taught training
classes in Unix and Networking areas.

He joined LIDP in 1994 and has worked on and successfully completed
several project for clients and internal to LIDP. The projects
included RDBMS, SSH, openvpn, Bacula, C, Perl, and Java. He has worked
on projects to migrate clients from Mainframe using VSAM to Unix using
DB2 and Oracle. He has several years experience in administrating AIX
and Linux operating systems. He has also designed and implemented,
network infra structure and security. He has several articles in
technical publications. He recently implemented open source bacula
backup software with 2TB disk based backup system.

Directions to IIT - Rice Campus in Wheaton
The 19-acre campus is located just northeast of the intersection of Naperville and Butterfield roads in sou
th Wheaton's Danada development. The campus is three miles west of the Butterfield Road interchange of the N
orth-South Tollway (I-355) and two miles north of the Naperville Road interchange of the East-West Tollway (
I-88).

From the North or South:
From I-355 (North-South Tollway), exit westbound at Rt.56/Butterfield Road and proceed west 3 1/2 miles on B
utterfield Road to East Loop Road. Turn right onto East Loop Road (Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building.
Room 103 is the first room inside the north enterance.

From the I-294 (Tri-State Tollway), take the I-88 (East-West Tollway) westbound and follow directions "From
the East or West" below.

From the East or West:
From I-88 (East-West Tollway), take the Naperville Road exit. At the traffic light, turn left onto Naperville
Road and continue north for 1\275 miles to Rt. 56/Butterfield Road. Turn right onto Rt. 56/Butterfield Road
and proceed 1/4 mile to the first traffic light (East Loop Road). Turn left on to East Loop Road, (
Phillip's 66 Gas station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north
of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building.